CHESS

Evening Star, Issue 18057, 26 August 1922, Page 12

CHESS

[Conducted by J.H.F.H.] The Otajo Chesa Clnb in seta for play ok 103 Princes street south every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday evening, at 7.30 o clock. TO CORRESPONDENTS. [All communications must be addressed "'Chess Editor," ‘Evening Star.’] PROBLEM No. 1,600. By A. Ellcrman. Black, 11 pieces.

White, 10 pieces. White to play and mate in two moves. 4bq2; IRSpPIKt; 4kPpKt; lP2p3; 2Kb2Pp; Blp4r; B 7; 4kt3. SOLUTION’OF PROBLEM No. 1,599. Key move: Q-Q sq. GAME No. 1,474. Played in the SI. Petersburg Quadrangular Tournament, January 6, 1896. White, H. N. Pillsbury; Black, Dr E. Lasker. Queen’s Gambit Declined. 1 P-Q 4 P-Q 4 2 P-Q B 4 P-K 3 5 KL-Q B 3 Kt-K B 3 4 Kt-B 5 P-B 4 5 B-Kt 5 B P x P 6Q x P Kt-B 3 7 Q-R 4 B-K 2 8 Castles Q-R 41 9 P-K 3 B-Q 2 10 K-Kt 1 P-K R 3 11 P x P P x P 12, Kt-Q 4 Castles (K E) 13 B x Kt, B x B 14 Q-R 5 Kt xKt 15 P x Kt B-K 3 16 P-B 4 Q R-B 1 17 P-B 5 R x Kt! (a) 18 Px B E-Q R 6! ! 19 P x P ch R x P 20 Px R Q-Kt 3ch 21 B-Kt 5! Q x B ch 22 K-R 1 R-B 2 23 R-Q 2 R-B 5 24 K R-Q 1 R-B 6 25 Q-B 5 Q-B 5 26 K-Kt 2? (b) R sP! 27 Q-K 6 ch K-R 2 28 Kx R (o) Black mates in five moves. (a) White had a chance of bringing his Q back to B 3, bub he did not anticipate what is coming—a combination which Burn describes as ''one of the finest ever made.” (b) This loses, and so would K-Kt I, though nob so quickly, B x P being Black’s reply. But 26 Q-Kt 1, a move which curiously seems to have escaped attention hitherto, gives White a perfectly valid defence—o.g., 26 Q-Kt 1, R x P; 27 Q-Kt 2, R-R 5; 28 P-Q R 3. Time pressure is noticeable in the play of both sides. (c) K-Kt 1 is better for after B x P. 29 Q-B 5 ch, P-Kt 3; 30 Q-B 7 ch, B-Kt 2; 31 Q x QKt P, R-R 5; 32 R-Kt 2, Black's •win requires proving, an extraordinarily diflicult game all through.

•NURSERY RHYMES REVISED. Sing a song of triumph! Fcgatello is the fry: Four and twenty brilliant moves—it’s easier than pie! But if towards the last the piece begins to tell, The gambit-monger looks aghast, and swears it is a, sell. Dickery, diefcery, dock! Ho forgot to watch the clock. The clock struck one; The flag fell down; .Oh-h-h, what a horrible shock! Caro, Carol Is it far O By your path to level ground? PB 3 seems tame to me, Rann you really bo quite sound? Old Mr Tozer, Who is a composer, And also a bit of a guy, Says, when lie puts through A neat thing in two, “,Oh, what a fine fellow am I.” Hey, diddle, diddle! Here’s a fine riddle: Would Blake have jumped over the lot If instead of those feeble men, Thomas and ’ Yates, He had met tho redoubtable . . ? “R.P.M."